Al Jama-ah

Al Jama-ah (Arabic: الجماعة‎, lit. 'the Congregation') is a South African political party. It was formed in 2007 by present leader Ganief Hendricks and contested the 2009, 2014 and 2019 national elections.[1]

Al Jama-ah الجماعة

Leader	Ganief Hendricks
Founded	23 April 2007
Headquarters	Howard Centre, Pinelands, Cape Town
Ideology	Islamic democracy
Colours	Green Black Red
National Assembly seats	1 / 400
National Council of Provinces	0 / 90
Party flag

Website
www.aljama.co.za
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The party aims to support Muslim interests and uphold Sharia law. The flag of Al Jama-ah depicts a white gimel, ج, (the first letter in its Arabic name,) upon a field consisting of the other pan-Arab colors.

History

Until 2019, the party had no elected representatives nationally or provincially although it came close in both the 2009 and 2014 elections, and won 9 seats at the local level in the 2016 municipal elections.

It made a breakthrough in 2019, winning its first national representative (becoming the first Islam-affiliated party to do so), as well as one seat in the Western Cape legislature.

Election results

National Assembly


Election	Total votes	Share of vote	Seats	+/–	Government
2009	25,947	0.15	0 / 400	–	extraparliamentary
2014	25,976	0.14	0 / 400	–	extraparliamentary
2019	31,468	0.18	1 / 400	1	in opposition

Provincial elections


Election[2][3]	Eastern Cape		Free State		Gauteng		Kwazulu-Natal		Limpopo		Mpumalanga		North-West		Northern Cape		Western Cape
Election[2][3]	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats
2014	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.62%	0/42
2019	0.15%	0/63	-	-	0.18%	0/73	0.28%	0/80	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.86%	1/42

Municipal elections

In a by-election in November 2020, Al-Jama-ah won a ward in the City of Johannesburg from the Democratic Alliance.[4]


Election	Votes	%	+/–
2011[5]	13,227	0.04%
2016[6]	36,891	0.10%

References

"Final List of Parties to contest the 2009 Elections". Polity.org.za. 2009-03-11. Retrieved 2009-04-13.
http://electionresources.org/za/provinces.php?election=1994&province=WC
"Results Dashboard". www.elections.org.za. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
Khumalo, Juniour. "The DA was the biggest loser in this week's by-elections". Citypress. Retrieved 2020-11-14.
http://www.elections.org.za/content/LGEPublicReports/197/Detailed%20Results/National.pdf
"Results Summary - All Ballots" (PDF). elections.org.za. Retrieved 11 August 2016.

External links

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